souchan

Updated: August 26, 2026

Goussiev, a private on long leave, raised himself a little in his hammock and said in a whisper: "Can you hear me, Pavel Ivanich? A soldier at Souchan told me that their boat ran into an enormous fish and knocked a hole in her bottom." The man of condition unknown whom he addressed, and whom everybody in the hospital-ship called Pavel Ivanich, was silent, as if he had not heard.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - The House with the Mezzanine and Other Stories